Born in Joplin Missouri on Febuary 1, 1902
Langston Hughes died in New York of complications from prostate cancer in May 22, 1967, in New York.
Langston Hughes was 65 yrs. old
Langston Hughes was an american poet,novelist,playwright,short story writer, and a columist.
Hughes was known for his writings and poems about the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston was the son of Carrie Mercer Langston and father James Nathaniel Hughes.
Hughes attended Lincoln University where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1929.
After graduating school Hughes worked many different jobs one of them was a crewmen on the S.S.Malone after theat he started doing white collar jobs one was a busboy after Huhges quit his white collar jobs he moved back to Harlem as his primary home for the remander of his life.
Hughes's influence into his works was Walt Whitman.
Langston Hughes's most known poems and stories are The Weary Blue, The Ways of White Folks, Dream, Children's Rhymes, and Justice.
Children's Rhymes By what sends
the white kids
I ain't sent:
I know I can't
be President.
What don't bug
them white kids
sure bugs me:
We know everybody
ain't free.
Lies written down
for white folks
ain't for us a-tall: Liberty And Justice--
Huh!--For All?
Langston Hughes
Born in Joplin Missouri on Febuary 1, 1902
Langston Hughes died in New York of complications from prostate cancer in May 22, 1967, in New York.
Langston Hughes was 65 yrs. old
Langston Hughes was an american poet,novelist,playwright,short story writer, and a columist.
Hughes was known for his writings and poems about the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston was the son of Carrie Mercer Langston and father James Nathaniel Hughes.
Hughes attended Lincoln University where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1929.
After graduating school Hughes worked many different jobs one of them was a crewmen on the S.S.Malone after theat he started doing white collar jobs one was a busboy after Huhges quit his white collar jobs he moved back to Harlem as his primary home for the remander of his life.
Hughes's influence into his works was Walt Whitman.
Langston Hughes's most known poems and stories are The Weary Blue, The Ways of White Folks, Dream, Children's Rhymes, and Justice.
Children's Rhymes
By what sends
the white kids
I ain't sent:
I know I can't
be President.
What don't bug
them white kids
sure bugs me:
We know everybody
ain't free.
Lies written down
for white folks
ain't for us a-tall:
Liberty And Justice--
Huh!--For All?
Dreams(1932)
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
Justice
That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.